Lately I’ve been getting pretty overwhelmed by the amount of work that is in my “TODO List”. One of the most serious problems is with professional responsibility in the form of reviewing journal articles. I have two papers that need to be reviewed in the next few days, and two that are already overdue. This along with getting my own work done and writing papers (which is also going far too slow). It definitely doesn’t help that I have some personal travel that might be coming up real soon too!

I am definitely making progress on everything I am supposed to be doing, but very frequently the sheer magnitude of stuff that is left to do makes me feel like I’m going too slow. I’m still learning to manage my time better, but in the mean time I guess it means a lot more late nights! And unfortunately for the first time, I’ve had to excuse myself from a paper that was sent to me for a review. I just hope I’ll handle things a little better in 2011.